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Humiliation: An Understudied Self-Conscious Emotion

The next Faculty Lunch Talk will be presented by Peony Fhagen-Smith, Associate Professor of Psychology. All are welcome. Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 at 12:30 pm…

What Can You Do? Service Sociology and Social Problems

By A. Javier Trevino A new type of sociology is devoted to the practical amelioration of social problems.

The Passion of Mission Hill

“Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston” recorded the impact of desegregation and urban renewal. Professor Grady’s 1978 controversial documentary was recently featured at the…

Artist Talk by Marina Zurkow

November 18, 2013 Crossing multiple disciplines with her practice, Marina Zurkow builds animations and participatory environments that are centered on humans and their relationship to…

The Surprising History of Household Electric Refrigeration

Betsey Dyer, Prof. of Biology and Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Prof. of Religion present this week’s Faculty Lunch Talk.

Languages, Linguists, and Labeling: The Case of the ‘Future’ in Cherokee

Presented by Sylvia Schreiner, Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Applied Linguistics. Thurs., Nov. 7 at 12:30 pm in PDR. All are welcome.

Colleen Mangan ’13 on Princess Marie Czartoryska

In this uncut sheet of carte-de-visite portraits, Princess Marie Czartoryska wears traditional Polish dress. Colleen Mangan ’13 reads that choice as reflecting her family’s political belief that Polish nobility and…

David LaFleche ’14 on Les Halles

David LaFleche ’14 notes that, unlike other 19th-century scenic photographs of the city which tend to emphasize wide empty streets and imposing French architecture, this…

Sophie Kilcoyne ’13 on Accident at Gare Montparnasse

Sophie Kilcoyne ’13 discusses the theatricality of this stereoscopic image—the way it gives its viewer an impression of being a participant in the scene—which suggests…

Emmy Kennett ’16 on Rue de Rivoli

Emmy Kennett ’16 identifies the strategic choices made by this anonymous photographer which allowed him to emphasize the impressive grandeur and stately order of the…

Josephine Johnson ’13 on Two Female Nudes

Josephine Johnson ’13 examines the unstable boundaries separating idealized nudity from pornography in the 19th century.

Nickolas Falla ’16 on Collard

Nickolas Falla ’16 examines an image glorifying the expansion of France’s railway system. Because Collard’s photograph was taken from inside the train tunnel, it gives…